"Will I get into the Stargate program if I solve it?"

Admittingly I don’t have a clue to the engineering required to find a solution, and I haven’t written the simplest of code for over 15 years or so, but respectfully I’m going to call bullshit on the scam accusation. Scam is one more misused/overused term anymore. Those who do this as their livelihood aren’t going to take time away from from real time earnings to speculate on wining a contest. Professional level amateurs who enter create code to enter the contest will be writing that code during their leisure time, time where they may or may not productive otherwise. In that case it’s misleading to assign high dollar value to that time spent. No doubt their may be those who write code as their livelihood who may decide to spend a portion of the leisure time working on this, here too it would be misleading to assign their daytime job rate, to support accusation of scam. Rese...